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By Mark Johanson, CNN (CNN) — What is the highest mountain on Earth? Turns out the answer to that question is more debatable than you might think. If you measure altitude above mean sea level, then the 29,032-foot (8,849-meter) Mount Everest, which straddles the border between Tibet and Nepal, is clearly the world’s highest. Yet,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A lift technician at a museum in the Netherlands mistakenly threw away a piece of artwork made to look like two empty beer cans. “All the good times we spent together” by French artist Alexandre Lavet may look like it belongs in a trash can at first glance, but

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — “You do not lose your feminine qualities just because you are a prime minister,” Margaret Thatcher told British TV doctor Miriam Stoppard in a 1985 interview. “I often wear bows, they are rather softening … (and) rather pretty.” As the UK’s first female prime minister, Thatcher could be excused

By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Things got unexpectedly racy onboard a recent Qantas flight when an R-rated film was played on all the aircraft’s screens. According to a statement from the Australian airline confirming the incident to CNN, passengers on the flight from Sydney to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport last week were unable to select

By Marnie Hunter and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — A computer problem with the train that shuttles passengers between concourses at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Monday morning caused bottlenecks and confusion as people scrambled to get to their gates at the world’s busiest airport. Shortly after noon local time the airport said in a

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — JetBlue’s economy class passengers will no longer find hot meals on the menu aboard transatlantic flights. The airline’s new menus for its core economy class feature a note: “all items served chilled.” That means chilled overnight oats, crepes and frittatas for breakfast. Lunch and dinner items include chilled soba

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There’s not much that is relatable about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: from her rise to British royal notoriety to her achingly aspirational lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard. But on Saturday, a rare opportunity for connection presented itself when Meghan arrived at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 2024 Gala in a

By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Motorcycles whizz by in all directions. Street vendors ply their wares at every turn. To the untrained eye, and especially the recently arrived tourist, it seems as if chaos abounds. This is Ho Chi Minh City, the commercial heart of a resurgent Vietnam. It’s a city

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — When baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng appeared on Molly Swindall’s social media feed for the first time, it was love at first sight. “I thought she was absolutely hysterical, and had a lot of fun energy,” Swindall, 30, tells CNN Travel. “She’s just a little bright spot in the

By Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — Tropical plants creep up vast structural columns and dangle from ledges, hundreds of feet above the ground. Guests lounge around a lagoon-like swimming pool nestled away from the scorching midday sun. A series of soaring terraces sit within the tower’s frame, like caverns carved into a mountainside. This

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Dubai’s Emirates airline has banned pagers and walkie-talkies from its planes, following last month’s attacks on such devices carried by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. “All Passengers travelling on flights to, from or via Dubai are prohibited from transporting pagers and walkie talkies in checked or cabin baggage,” the

By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The 8,000-acre Biltmore Estate, Asheville’s biggest attraction that welcomes 1.4 million visitors a year, received significant damage in some buildings after Helene ripped through Western North Carolina, the Biltmore said. “We are still assessing impacts to the estate from Tropical Storm Helene and that will take some time,” the Biltmore said

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — To say that there have been many twists and turns in the tale of the three-and-a-half-year cruise is something of an understatement. Villa Vie Odyssey initially set off from Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday night after a delay of around four months, but didn’t get very far. After traveling

CNN By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Flash floods swept through a popular elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand on Thursday, killing two elephants and forcing the evacuation of about 100 more alongside dozens of tourists, amid urgent pleas for help. Dramatic video and images from the Elephant Nature Park near the

By Chris Lau and Nodoka Katsura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japanese toymaker MegaHouse has unveiled a miniature Rubik’s Cube — one so tiny that you might need a pair of tweezers to solve it. Each face of the cube, which is made from aluminum, measures about five millimeters (around 0.2 inches) across. It was made

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Flash floods swept through a popular elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand on Thursday, killing two elephants and forcing the evacuation of about 100 more alongside dozens of tourists, amid urgent pleas for help. Dramatic video and images from the Elephant Nature Park near the city

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — More than 180 people were evacuated Thursday from a Ryanair Boeing passenger jet after it caught fire while taxiing to take off at Brindisi Airport in southern Italy. The incident comes two days after a tire blowout on another of the airline’s Boeing planes during landing led to the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Late planners in the United States hoping to travel abroad have a little more breathing room than they once did. The State Department announced Thursday that the typical processing time for US passports is now down to four to six weeks. The previous processing time was six to eight

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — With the full extent of the devastation and loss of life still coming into view, tourism officials in states along Helene’s destructive path are offering nuanced guidance about which parts of their states are accessible to visitors. It’s a balancing act for officials, who are weighing the economic effects

By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — What role fashion can play in bleak times? As France — and much of Europe — grapple with the seemingly inexorable rise of far-right parties, headline-grabbing lawsuits tied to the #MeToo movement, alongside the global downturn of the luxury sector, designers at Paris Fashion Week, which culminated on